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SPECIFICATION lforionng part of Letters Patentino. 716,199, dated December 16, 1902. Application iiled April l5, 1902. Serial No. 103,024. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, ALICE J. DAY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of-Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have made `and invented certain new and useful lmprovements in a Combined Sleeve and Collar Form, of which the following is a specification,

My invention relates to an improvement in sleeve-forms, the object being to produce a device of this kind which may be employed for holding a sleeve in shape while making and `trimming the same and which, combined with a shoulder and collar form, may also be utilized for retaining the sleeves and collars of garments in proper shape while not in use or on exhibition.

At the present time it is the practice of those employed in making and trimming sleeves to allow the same to lie flat, whereby they often become creased and wrinkled.

. The object of my invention is to provide a device of the character above mentioned which will retain the sleeve in somewhat the shape it assumes while being worn, thereby enabling the operator to finish and trim the saine far more readily and with more eXactness and neatness and without in any way .wrinkling or damaging the article.

With these and other ends in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View in side elevation of my improved Fig. 2 is a view in front elevation. Fig. 3 is a detached View of the shoulder and collar form. Fig. Il is a detailview -showing the ends of the sections riveted together and the construction of the end through which ward the wrist or lower endthe form consisting of a number of circular loops placed or arranged diagonally or at an angle with each other-as, for instance, the circular loop, consisting of the four curved metallic strips or sections 6 7 8 9, is arranged diagonally to and crossed by the loop consisting of the sections lO 11 l2 13, this arrangement of parts being followed throughout the entire sleeveform, the ends of four sections meeting at a common point and secured together by means of a rivet 14, as illustrated at Figs. 4 and 5, the fastening being sufliciently loose to allow of the loops being forced in a direction toward or away from each other, whereby to lengthen or shorten the form. Along the under part of the form runs a tape or strip of pliable material l5 and on the outer part or side a similar tape 1G, whereby the several loops may be held in any desired adjustment with relation to each other, these tapes passing through slots 17, formed in the plates 18, with which one section is provided, where the four ends are riveted together at the outer and under parts of the form, this construction and arrangement of parts allowing the several loops, each made up of four sections, as before described, to be drawn together and so held when the form is to be shortened and the adjusting-tapes to slide through the slotted plates when the loops are to be separated to lengthen the form.

To the upper and larger end of the sleeveform and to any of the desired sections may be attached the shoulder and collar form illustrated in Fig. 3, this portion of the device oonsisting of the several sections 19 20, riveted at their inner ends 2l and at their outer ends 22, the said sections being provided at their outer ends with the plates 23, formed with the slots 24, Fig. 6, through which pass the adj listing-tapes 25, whereby the shoulder-form may be lengthened and shortened on the principle of the lazy-tongs. To the sections 27 is secured the collar-form, consisting of the seotions 28, preferably made of spring metal, as are the sections of the shoulder andsleeve forms, these sections 28 being riveted at their outer ends 29 and provided with the plates 30, slotted, as in the instance before referred to, through which pass the tapes 31 forincreasing or decreasing the size or length of this portion of the device.

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that when the-combined sleeve, shoulder, and collar forms are inserted within a garment the latter may be trimmed or finished with far more readiness, neatness, and exactness than when the same is allowed to hang loose, the form being of approximately the same size as the garment-sleeve with which the same is employed. It Will be further understood that the device may also be utilized to keep the lgarmentin proper shape after completion and while the saine is not in use or Upon exhibition in stores, &c. Being made of tempered sheet metal, the same is inexpensive to manufacture and can be easily and readily adjusted for use by means of the adjusting-tapes. I

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 

